Colours

This page defines values for the "seamark:<object>:colour" and "seamark:<object>:colour_pattern" tags.

There is a set of standard colours defined in the S-100 attribute catalogue.

Colour (COLOUR)

seamark:<object>:colour

Rendering

White

white

Black

black

Red

red

Green

green

Blue

blue

Yellow

yellow

Grey

grey

Brown

brown

Amber

amber

Violet

violet

Orange

orange

Magenta

magenta

Pink

pink

Colour Patterns

Painted object with more than one colour can be specified by listing those colours in a semi-colon separated list. When this is done, a colour pattern tag must be used in addition to the colour tag. The rendering order is top-to-bottom, left-to-right, background, border. More than one pattern can be similarly specified and the colours are assigned to the patterns in their listed order.

Pattern (COLPAT)

seamark:<object>:colour_pattern

Definition

Rendering

Horizontal stripes

horizontal

Straight bands or stripes of differing colours painted horizontally.

Vertical stripes

vertical

Straight bands or stripes of differing colours painted vertically.

Diagonal stripes

diagonal

Straight bands or stripes of differing colours painted diagonally.

Squared

squared

Often referred to as checker plate, where alternate colours are used to create squares similar to a chess or draught board. The pattern may be straight or diagonal.

Stripes (direction unknown)

stripes

Straight bands or stripes of differing colours painted in an unknown direction.

Border stripe

border

A band or stripe of colour which is displayed around the outer edge of the object, which may also form a border to an inner pattern or plain colour.

Vertical cross

cross

A vertical cross of one colour painted on a background of a different colour.

Diagonal cross

saltire

A diagonal cross of one colour painted on a background of a different colour.